Can not html entity decode of string in laravel5 blade view

Question

I use Php7.0 and Laravel 5.0 and want to initiate a var in javascript on blade page.

But html_entity_decode function can not decode the special chars.

userName =  "{{ html_entity_decode($user->name) }}"
console.log(userName);

I would like to see " ' < > but it gives me " ' < >

While checkin in db I can see correctly.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I did some quick testing. And the following example works on my side;

<script type="text/javascript">
    var userName = {!! json_encode($user->name) !!};
    console.log(userName);
</script>

When I check my console, the userName is displayed properly.